Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

The absurd man : poems / Major Jackson.

by Jackson, Major, 1968-

View full image

W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

American poetry -- 21st century.

American poetry -- Black authors

9781324004554 (hc)

104 p. ; 22 cm.

"In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment. Inspired by the philosophy of Albert Camus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as 'absurd hero.' With intense musicality and buoyant lyricism, The Absurd Man follows the titular speaker as he confronts the struggle for meaning in a technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, finding refuge in intellectual and sensuous passions. At once melancholic and jubilant, Jackson considers the journey of humanity, with all its foibles, as a sacred pattern of discovery reconciled by art and the imagination. From 'The Absurd Man at Fourteen' He punched her again, a woman called the house, some yelling then us out the door leaving the kitchen phone cord swinging"--Publisher.

American poetry.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal